WaterTower Music has announced a soundtrack release for the HBO limited series We Own This City. The digital single includes the show’s main title and end title theme by Emmy Award nominee Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Mrs. America, Green Book, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Inventing Anna, Dear White People, When They See Us). Both tracks feature Baltimore native trumpeter Dontae Winslow. The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on all major digital music platforms, including Amazon. Also listen to both full tracks below. We Own This City is developed by George Pelecanos & David Simon, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and stars Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Josh Charles, Jamie Hector, McKinley Belcher III, Don Harvey, Dagmara Domińczyk, David Corenswet, Rob Brown, Larry Mitchell, Ian Duff and Lucas Van Enge.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (April 24, 2022)
Premiering today is the Starz limited series Gaslit created by Robbie Pickering based on the first season of the Slow Burn podcast and starring Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Dan Stevens, Shea Whigham, Betty Gilpin and Darby Camp. The show’s original music is composed by Mac Quayle (Mr. Robot, Feud: Bette and Joan, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, The Politician, Ratched). Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the drama, which will air every Sunday on Starz.
Also premiering today is the Showtime original series The Man Who Fell to Earth developed by Alex Kurtzman & Jenny Lumet based on the Walter Tevis novel and the 1976 film of the same name and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Jimmy Simpson, Rob Delaney, Sonya Cassidy, Joana Ribeiro, Clarke Peters, Annelle Olaleye, Kate Mulgrew and Bill Nighy. Jeff Russo (Fargo, Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, Legion, The Night Of, Lucy in the Sky, The Umbrella Academy) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous article for more information about the sci-fi drama, which will air Sundays on Showtime.
Kris Bowers Scoring HBO’s ‘We Own This City’
Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Green Book, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Mrs. America, Inventing Anna, Dear White People, When They See Us) has recently scored the new HBO limited series We Own This City. The show is developed by George Pelecanos & David Simon (The Wire, Treme, The Deuce) and stars Jon Bernthal, Wunmi Mosaku, Jamie Hector, Josh Charles, McKinley Belcher III, Dagmara Domińczyk, Don Harvey, Rob Brown, David Corenswet, Ian Duff, Larry Mitchell and Lucas Van Enge. The 6-part drama is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.